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An indispensable guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher education

An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won't get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. Short and pragmatic, the book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively.

After earning a PhD in classics from the University of Virginia and teaching at Tulane, Christopher Caterine left academia for a job at a corporate consulting firm. During his career transition, he went on more than 150 informational interviews and later interviewed twelve other professionals who had left higher education for diverse fields. Drawing on everything he learned, Caterine helps readers chart their own course to a rewarding new career. He addresses dozens of key issues, including overcoming psychological difficulties, translating academic experience for nonacademics, and meeting the challenges of a first job in a new field.

Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your career change, even when the going gets tough, Leaving Academia is both realistic and filled with hope.

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豆瓣评论

  • 看writing就能感觉到作者是个文字能力很强的人文博士,可惜…四年之后再看03-05
  • 七月不远
    可惜没有早一点读到这本书,所以找工作的时候还是走了不少弯路。其实书里并没有特别具体的建议,有些经验也只适合美国的市场,但重要的事其中关于思想转变的部分,这也是长期混学术圈的人最弱的一个环节。12-30
  • clean
    等到以后万一有这么一天,我会想起再次看这本书的。12-23
  • 南山侍亭
    给了很多实用性的建议,然后发现我在读这本书之前已经实践了一部分。12-13
  • 千夜
    在不同的背景里也还是有很多共通之处的,写得很真诚,但诚如作者自己承认的,他已经算是条件非常好的人10-30

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